Publications

*Mentored graduate student co-author ±Mentored undergraduate student co-author

*Walsh, R. M., & Forest, A. L. (in press). Expressing the good in bad times: Examining whether and why positive expressivity in negative contexts affects romantic partners’ support provision. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Forest, A. L., *Sigler, K. N., *Bain, K. S., *O’Brien, E. R., & Wood, J. V. (in press). Self-esteem’s impacts on intimacy-building: Pathways through self-disclosure and responsiveness. Current Opinion in Psychology.

Wood, J. V., Forest, A. L., Friesen, J. P., Murray, S. L., Holmes, J. G., & McNulty, J. K. (accepted in principle). Why self-esteem matters in romantic relationships. Nature Reviews Psychology.

Cyr, E. N., Kroeper, K. M., Bergsieker, H. B., Dennehy, T. C., Logel, C., Steele, J. R., Knasel, R. A., Hartwig, W. T., Shum, P., Reeves, S. L., Dys-Steenbergen, O., Litt, A., Lok, C. B., Ballinger, T., Nam, H., Tse, C., Forest, A. L., Zanna, M., Staub-French, S., Wells, M., Schmader, T., Wright, S. C., & Spencer, S. J. (in press). Girls are good at STEM: Opening minds and providing evidence reduces boys’ stereotyping of girls’ STEM ability. Child Development.

Elnakouri, A., Rossignac-Milon, M., *Krueger, K. L., Forest, A. L., Higgins, E. T., & Scholer, A., (in press). In it together: Sharing reality with instrumental others is linked to goal success. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

*Krueger, K. L. & Forest, A. L. (in press). Putting responsiveness in context: How a partner’s responsiveness baseline shapes perceived responsiveness. Personal Relationships.

±Chandler, K. R., *Krueger, K. L., Forest, A. L., & Orehek, E. (in press). Interested and instrumental: An examination of instrumentality regulation with potential romantic partners. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Schumann, K., Ritchie, E., & Forest, A. L. (in press). The social consequences of frequent versus infrequent apologizing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Forest, A. L., *Walsh, R. M., & *Krueger, K. L. (2021). Facilitating and motivating support: How support seekers can affect the support they receive. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, e12600.

*Walsh, R. M., & Forest, A. L. (2021). Can expressing positivity elicit support for negative events? A process model and review. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 25(1), 3-40.

*Krueger, K. L., & Forest, A. L. (2020). Communicating commitment: A relationship-protection account of dyadic displays on social media. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46, 1059-1073.

*Walsh, R. E., Forest, A. L., & Orehek, E. (2020). Self-disclosure on social media: The role of perceived network responsiveness. Computers in Human Behavior, 104, 106162.

Orehek, E., Forest, A. L., & Wingrove, S. (2018). People as means to multiple goals: Implications for interpersonal relationships. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44, 1487-1501.

Orehek, E, Forest, A. L., & Barbaro, N. (2018). A people-as-means approach to interpersonal relationships. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, 373-389.

Wood, J. V. & Forest, A. L. (2016). Self-protective yet self-defeating: The paradox of low self-esteem people's self-disclosures. In J. M. Olson & M. P. Zanna (Eds), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 53, 131-181. Cambridge, MA: Academic Press.

Orehek, E., & Forest, A. L. (2016). When people serve as means to goals: Implications of a motivational account of close personal relationships. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25, 79-84.

Forest, A. L., Kille, D. R., ±Stehouwer, L., & Wood, J. V. (2015). Turbulent times, rocky relationships: Relational consequences of experiencing physical instability. Psychological Science, 26, 1261–1271.

Open Science Collaboration (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251). DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4716

Forest, A. L., & Frieze, I. H. (2015). Love and commitment. In G.E. Ritzer (Ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition. Wiley Blackwell, Chichester. doi: 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeos0057.

Forest, A. L., Kille, D. R., Wood, J. V., & Holmes, J. G. (2014). Discount and disengage: How chronic negative expressivity affects partner responsiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 1013-1032.

Kille, D. R., Forest, A. L., & Wood, J. V. (2013). Tall, dark, and stable: Embodiment motivates mate selection preferences. Psychological Science, 24, 112-114.

Gaucher, D., Wood, J. V., Stinson, D. A., Forest, A. L., Holmes, J. G., & Logel, C. (2012). Perceived regard explains self-esteem differences in expressivity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1144-1156.

Forest, A. L., & Wood, J. V. (2012). When social networking is not working: Individuals with low self-esteem recognize but do not reap the benefits of self-disclosure on Facebook. Psychological Science, 23, 295-302.

Forest, A. L., & Wood, J. V. (2011). When partner caring leads to sharing: Partner responsiveness increases expressivity, but only for people with low self-esteem. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 843-848.

Stinson, D. A., Logel, C., Holmes, J. G., Wood, J. V., Forest, A. L., Gaucher, D., Fitzsimons, G. M., & Kath, J. (2010). The regulatory function of self-esteem: Testing the acceptance and epistemic signalling systems. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 993-1013.

Wood, J. V., & Forest, A. L. (2010). Seeking pleasure and avoiding pain in interpersonal relationships. In M. Alicke & C. Sedikides (Eds.), The Handbook of Self-Enhancement and Self-Protection. New York: Guilford Press, pp. 258-278. 

Wood, J. V., **Hogle, A., & McClellan, J. (2009). Self-esteem and relationships. In H. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships, Volume 3, 1422-1425. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.